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Design students exhibit at Dutch Design Week

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 08:55 AM PDT



PLLANT is a collaborative design group involving young designers from the University of Lincoln's BA (Hons) Product Design and BA (Hons) Jewellery and Object programmes as well as design students from the UK universities of Plymouth, Loughborough and Nottingham Trent University.


The group concentrates on the Upcycling of waste material to create a range of innovative and enhanced outcomes. The project is supported by Co-oproduct, and will showcase work internationally at major design festivals and events throughout the coming months, starting with the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven next week.


The 17 jewellery pieces designed by 9 current students meets the PLLANT-brief of upcycling.  The students used materials that are considered to be waste, and turned them into desirable bracelets.  The images above show what can be done with upcycled Nespresso capsules; the Capsule Collection is by Caroline Draper.



Bracelet by Ruth Browton, using reinforced rubber and ribbon.


PLLANT will exhibit it's launch project collection at Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2012, the major international design event hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands.


   Mudguard Fruit Bowl by Benjamin Perry and George Wright


Date: 20- 28 October 2012

Venue: TAC - TemporaryArt Centre, Vonderweg 1, 5611BK Eindhoven, The Netherlands

"Occupations" curated by student of new MA programme

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:23 AM PDT


The first exhibition by a student on the University of Lincoln's new MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice opened earlier this week at the Greestone Gallery within the Lincoln School of Art and Design. Curated by student Ashleigh McDougall, the show reflects on how artists continue to maintain art practices, whilst also keeping other paid jobs to pay the bills.

A series of interviews with the artists form part of the exhibition and give an insight into this often hidden aspect of an artist's life. Only arriving from Canada in the summer, Ashleigh met with a selection of artists based in Lincoln to find out more about Lincoln's art community and formed the genesis for the show based on the conversations she had with them.



"Occupations"

Greestone Gallery, October 16-26, 2012

Curated by Ashleigh McDougall (MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice)

"The image of the 19th Century starving artist is familiar, but this stereotype of hardship for the sake of art must not be considered to have died with that era. Franz Kafka, writing in 1922, explored the concept through the figure of the "hunger artist," who is entirely sustained by the process of his practice. The artist knows that the public does not truly understand or appreciate his efforts to transcend through his art, but does so anyway, being neither raised up, nor let down by their opinions. Kafka draws attention to the ideas of process, work and the influence of the outside world as being highly significant in art making. Rather than considering the works solely as they are, this exhibition seeks to draw attention to the progression of work and the role of non-art occupations in this process.

"Statistically, artists have a greater need to seek income-supporting work outside of their own practice, and have higher rates of unemployment or underemployment than non-artists. For some, financial need and the lack of opportunity dictate that limitations are placed on the time spent in practice".

Some of work included in this exhibition reflects the artist's feeling of frustration as a result of the restraints placed on them, while others are examples of the willingness to accept and incorporate the less-than ideal aspects of life in the artistic process. The artists featured are Nick Simpson, Tom Cretney, Amelia Beavis-Harrison, and the Dug collective of Joana Cifre-Cerda, Kate Buckley and Ross Oliver.




The exhibition continues until 26th October and is open 10-4 each day, apart form weekends.
For more information about this new masters programme, please visit the programmes webpage or contact Programme Leader Andrew Bracey.

MA student working with Lincoln's Usher gallery

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:08 AM PDT



Anyone visiting the new exhibition at Lincoln's Usher Gallery, A Focus For Memory will be able to find out more about the exhibition thanks to MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice student, Ashleigh McDougall's interpretive text.

Ashleigh has written all the text panels in the gallery and an informative companion essay, which contextualises the work by artists Tim Davies, Paul Graham and Michael Sanders. Ashleigh said of the experience,  "Writing the interpretive package for the new show at The Collection / Usher was a great experience. It gave me the chance to use the writing skills I've developed over the course of my academic career, but provided me with a practical outlet that will be important in my future career. Thinking about new and different audiences, and putting together a cohesive and complimentary theme was challenging, but also an excellent learning opportunity".

For more information either about the exhibition, or the programme MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice, contact Programme Leader Andrew Bracey.
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